Cursive Goliv 3 is a very light, very narrow, high contrast, italic, very short x-height font.
Keywords: invitations, branding, logotypes, headlines, packaging, elegant, airy, refined, romantic, vintage, signature look, calligraphic tone, decorative caps, elegant display, stationery, monoline feel, hairline, looping, flourished, slanted.
This script has a delicate hairline presence with pronounced contrast between fine upstrokes and slightly heavier, brush-like downstrokes. Letterforms are strongly right-slanted and narrow, with long, tapering terminals and occasional looped ascenders/descenders that add ornamental motion. Uppercase characters show more flourish and variation, while lowercase maintains a compact rhythm with a notably small x-height and generous ascender height. Spacing is open enough to keep the strokes from tangling, but the overall texture remains light and linear.
Best suited to display settings where its hairline detail and flourished capitals can be appreciated, such as wedding suites, event stationery, boutique branding, packaging accents, and signature-style logotypes. It can work for short headlines or pull quotes, but the very small lowercase body benefits from generous size and leading for comfortable reading.
The tone is graceful and intimate, evoking handwritten correspondence and refined signature styling. Its light touch and sweeping curves feel romantic and slightly vintage, with a poised, boutique sensibility rather than casual marker handwriting.
The design appears intended to capture a refined, calligraphic handwriting look with a signature-like slant and selective flourish. It prioritizes elegance and motion over utilitarian text readability, emphasizing graceful terminals, narrow proportions, and decorative capitals for expressive display use.
Capitals include several decorative entry/exit strokes that can read as swashes in running text, especially on rounded letters. Numerals are simple and slanted to match the script, keeping the same airy, high-contrast feel as the alphabet.